Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing Azure 108 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 10.96% 7.12% 7.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.71% 22.11% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 17 28
10th Percentile £394 £450 £185
25th Percentile £453 £475 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +20.00% -22.73%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £500
90th Percentile £688 £650 £788
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +5.41% -2.63% -12.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 437 95 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.37% 32.20% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 75 73
10th Percentile £326 £351 £188
25th Percentile £413 £451 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £546 £608 £587
90th Percentile £625 £650 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £36.91 £15.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% +146.03% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -5 105 £500 -1.96% 33
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 8
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.63%) Confluence
1 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 70 (64.81%) AWS
2 65 (60.19%) GCP
3 21 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 20 (18.52%) OpenShift
5 13 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.19%) GitHub
7 9 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.48%) SaaS
10 5 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.63%) OneDrive
11 4 (3.70%) ChatGPT
11 4 (3.70%) Serverless
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) Firewall
2 8 (7.41%) DNS
3 6 (5.56%) SAN
3 6 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.70%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.70%) VPN
5 2 (1.85%) HTTP
5 2 (1.85%) Network Security
5 2 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.85%) SSL
5 2 (1.85%) VSAN
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) VLAN
6 1 (0.93%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.48%) Power BI
3 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.63%) MySQL
5 4 (3.70%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.78%) Metadata
6 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) DataStage
7 2 (1.85%) DB2
8 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.93%) Parquet
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.15%) GitLab
3 24 (22.22%) JIRA
4 13 (12.04%) Selenium
5 12 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 12 (11.11%) REST Assured
6 11 (10.19%) Postman
7 8 (7.41%) Git
8 5 (4.63%) TestRail
9 4 (3.70%) Gatling
9 4 (3.70%) JMeter
9 4 (3.70%) LoadRunner
9 4 (3.70%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.78%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.93%) JUnit
11 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.22%) Finance
3 23 (21.30%) Banking
4 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Law
5 5 (4.63%) Legal
6 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Architect
2 16 (14.81%) Lead
3 11 (10.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Consultant
6 6 (5.56%) Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Senior
7 5 (4.63%) Test Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.70%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.15%) REST
2 23 (21.30%) LDAP
3 22 (20.37%) OpenID
4 17 (15.74%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.41%) OAuth
6 7 (6.48%) Middleware
6 7 (6.48%) SAML
7 6 (5.56%) .NET
8 4 (3.70%) Playwright
8 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
9 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.78%) JSON
9 3 (2.78%) Kafka
9 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.78%) XML
10 2 (1.85%) Node.js
10 2 (1.85%) Regular Expression
10 2 (1.85%) RESTful
10 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.63%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.70%) IoT
8 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.85%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) RSA SecurID
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.74%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.48%) VMS
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
4 5 (4.63%) CoreOS
4 5 (4.63%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (3.70%) Unix
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.93%) DevOps
2 48 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 26 (24.07%) Containerisation
4 25 (23.15%) Agile
5 21 (19.44%) Migration
5 21 (19.44%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (15.74%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 15 (13.89%) API Testing
9 15 (13.89%) Data Ingestion
10 14 (12.96%) ETL
10 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (12.96%) Test Strategy
11 13 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (12.04%) GitOps
11 13 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.56%) Python
2 26 (24.07%) SQL
3 25 (23.15%) Java
4 14 (12.96%) Bash
5 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.48%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.63%) Go
7 5 (4.63%) Groovy
7 5 (4.63%) PHP
8 4 (3.70%) Cypher
8 4 (3.70%) Scala
8 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.78%) Bicep
10 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) C#
11 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.63%) OCP
2 5 (4.63%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.70%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.78%) CISM
4 3 (2.78%) CISSP
4 3 (2.78%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.93%) CCA
6 1 (0.93%) CCSK
6 1 (0.93%) CEH
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.93%) GIAC
6 1 (0.93%) GWAPT
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) SLA
3 3 (2.78%) GDPR
3 3 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.78%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (13.89%) Docker
2 14 (12.96%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (10.19%) Active Directory
4 10 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.41%) vSphere
6 6 (5.56%) NFS
7 5 (4.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.85%) KVM
8 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.93%) Ceph
9 1 (0.93%) QEMU
9 1 (0.93%) XenApp
9 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (25.00%) Terraform
3 23 (21.30%) Ansible
4 9 (8.33%) Grafana
5 5 (4.63%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.85%) Argo
7 2 (1.85%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.93%) logstash
8 1 (0.93%) Podman
8 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.52%) Google
2 20 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.26%) VMware
4 8 (7.41%) Oracle
4 8 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.48%) NetApp
5 7 (6.48%) OpenAI
6 6 (5.56%) F5
6 6 (5.56%) Splunk
7 4 (3.70%) Alibaba
8 3 (2.78%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.78%) SAP
9 2 (1.85%) Aruba
9 2 (1.85%) Cisco
9 2 (1.85%) Delphix
9 2 (1.85%) Informatica
9 2 (1.85%) Okta
9 2 (1.85%) Ping Identity